Ophiosphaera insignis Brock, 1888 
AphiaID: 213453

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Amphiuridae (Family) > Ophiosphaera (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ophiosphaera Brock, 1888
Sources		original description: Brock, J. 1888. Die Ophiuridenfauna des indischen Archipels. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 47, 465-539. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes		Description: Also distributed in East Indies and Philippine (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, discontinuous, Philippines, E Africa, depth 110 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes ?Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen (Germany) (2 specimens). Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213453
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-04-01 13:22:26Z   created   Onyango, Eunice 2000-09-20 08:24:09Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Ophiosphaera insignis Brock, 1888. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213453 on 2013-05-22